Thursday, July 7Doors: 7:00 PMConcert: 7:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $80.00 ($22.00 - $77.00 Concert Member) Conductor:Peter Oundjian Guest Artist:Jan Lisiecki, piano Music Director Peter Oundjian begins a cycle of all five of Beethoven’s piano concertos, each performed by the award-winning Jan Lisiecki, whom Oundjian calls “one of the greatest piano talents of all time.” […]

Friday, July 8Doors: 6:00 PMConcert: 6:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 - $72.00 Concert Members)* Conductor:Peter Oundjian Guest Artist:Jan Lisiecki, piano After an engaging overture by Vaughan Williams, Music Director Peter Oundjian continues a cycle of all five of Beethoven’s piano concertos, each performed by the award-winning Jan Lisiecki. Beethoven wrote his Second Piano […]

Sunday, July 10Doors: 6:00 PMConcert: 6:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $80.00 ($22.00 - $77.00 Concert Member)* Conductor:Peter Oundjian Guest Artist:Jan Lisiecki, piano The Festival and Music Director Peter Oundjian continue a cycle of all five of Beethoven’s piano concertos, each performed by the award-winning Jan Lisiecki. The Fifth and final, best known as the “Emperor” Concerto, […]

Tuesday, July 12Doors: 7:00 PMConcert: 7:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $65.00 ($22.00 - $62.00 Concert Member)* Guest Artists: Attacca Quartet “I like to think of as collectors of joy,” says their cellist, Andrew Yee. New York’s Grammy Award-winning Attacca (pronounced ah-TAK-ah) Quartet “believes in and celebrates” music of the 20th and 21st centuries; in this performance, […]

Thursday, July 14Doors: 7:00 PMConcert: 7:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 - $75.00 Concert Member)* Conductors:Peter OundjianJohn Adams Guest Artists: Samuel Adams Tessa Lark, violin Timothy McAllister, saxophone The legendary John Adams, 2022 composer-in-residence and co-curator of this week’s programs, shares the podium with Music Director Peter Oundjian in this can’t-miss concert, beginning with a […]

Friday, July 15Doors: 7:00 PMConcert: 7:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 - $72.00 Concert Member)* Guest Artists:Timo Andres, pianoTessa Lark, violin Timothy McAllister, saxophoneMembers of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra Now in its second year, Kaleidoscope brings back and builds upon the theatrical elements that audiences loved: lighting, cinematography, a hint of stage magic, and […]

Sunday, July 17Doors: 6:00 PMConcert: 6:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 -  $72.00 Concert Member)* Conductor:Peter OundjianJohn Adams Guest Artist:Jeremy Denk, piano The Festival’s focus on today’s music continues as world-renowned conductor and Festival composer-in-residence/co-curator John Adams takes the podium to lead his off-beat and grooving Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? with […]

Tuesday, July 19Doors: 7:00 PMConcert: 7:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $65.00 ($22.00 - $62.00 Concert Member)* Guest Artists: Members of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra The Festival continues its Robert Mann Chamber Series, named for a beloved educator, composer, and founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet. Tchaikovsky spent some of his happiest days in Florence, […]

Thursday, July 21Doors: 7:00 PMConcert: 7:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 - $72.00 Concert Member)* Conductor:Ryan Bancroft Guest Artist:Randall Goosby, violin “ Goosby plays like an angel with nothing to prove,” claims the L.A. Times. The youngest recipient ever to win the Sphinx Concerto Competition and an artist dedicated to the dynamic music of Black […]

Friday, July 22Doors: 6:00 PMConcert: 6:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 - $72.00 Concert Member)* Conductor:Ryan Bancroft Guest Artist:Randall Goosby, violin “ Goosby plays like an angel with nothing to prove,” claims the L.A. Times.  The youngest recipient ever to win the Sphinx Concerto Competition and an artist dedicated to the dynamic music of Black […]

Sunday, July 24Doors: 6:00 PMConcert: 6:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 - $72.00 Concert Member)*  Conductor:Ryan Bancroft Guest Artist:Albert Cano Smit, piano “If you want to hear perfection, this is it,” says Music Director Peter Oundjian of Mozart’s final concerto, performed here by rising star pianist Albert Cano Smit, winner of the 2019 Young Concert […]

Tuesday, July 26Doors: 7:00 PMConcert: 7:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $65.00 ($22.00 - $62.00 Concert Member)*  Guest Artists: Members of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra This installment of the Robert Mann Chamber Series begins with Mozart’s jaunty First Flute Quartet, followed by the brief but profound Movement for String Trio by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. Dvořák’s complex Terzetto […]

Thursday, July 28Doors: 7:00 PMConcert: 7:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 - $72.00 Concert Member)*  Conductor:Jean-Marie Zeitouni Guest Artist:Gabriela Montero, piano Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto might never have seen the light of day — the pianist for whom it was written initially declared it “absolutely unplayable.” Luckily Tchaikovsky ignored this criticism, published his concerto, […]

Friday, July 29 Doors: 6:00 PM Concert: 6:30 PM Chautauqua Auditorium Tickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 - $72.00 Concert Member)* Conductor: Jean-Marie Zeitouni Guest Artist: Gabriela Montero, piano Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto might never have seen the light of day — the pianist for whom it was written initially declared it “absolutely unplayable.” Luckily Tchaikovsky […]

Sunday, July 31Doors: 6:00 PMConcert: 6:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 - $72.00 Concert Member)* Conductor:Jean-Marie Zeitouni Guest Artists:Jennifer Bird-Arvidsson, soprano John de Lancie, actor Marnie Mosiman, actor Abigail Nims, mezzo soprano Principal Guest Conductor Jean-Marie Zeitouni conducts a special Midsummer Night’s Dream. This performance pairs Mendelssohn’s lush score, which includes the instantly recognizable […]

Tuesday, August 2Doors: 7:00 PMConcert: 7:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $65.00 ($22.00 - $62.00 Concert Member)* Guest Artists: Danish String Quartet “They could be grounded in their tone or mystical. They allowed time to stand still, and they could assume the pose of excitingly aggressive rockers. They did it all,” says The Los Angeles Times […]

Thursday, August 4Doors: 7:00 PMConcert: 7:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 - $72.00 Concert Member)* Conductor:Peter Oundjian Guest Artists:Wang Jie, composerAnthony McGill, clarinet The New York Times has praised clarinetist Anthony McGill for “his trademark brilliance, penetrating sound and rich character”; McGill’s musical charisma is a perfect match for Weber’s First Clarinet Concerto, which […]

Sunday, August 7Doors: 6:00 PMConcert: 6:30 PMChautauqua AuditoriumTickets: $25.00 - $75.00 ($22.00 - $72.00 Concert Member)* Conductor: Peter Oundjian Leave it to Mahler to give us harrowing funeral marches shot through with blinding rays of hope. That is his epic Fifth Symphony: a masterpiece which, while not expressly telling a story, still whispers Mahler’s secrets […]